CLV(i)
21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorite with words of peace, saying.
22 Let me pass through your land. We shall not turn aside into field or into vineyard. We shall not drink water of any well. By the king's road shall we go until we cross over your boundary.
23 Yet Sihon would not allow Israel to cross over at his boundary. Sihon gathered all his people and went forth to meet Israel toward the wilderness. He came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
24 Yet Israel smote him with the edge of the sword and tenanted his land from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon, for the boundary of the sons of Ammon was Jazer.
25 Israel took all these cities. Israel also dwelt in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its outskirts,
26 for Heshbon, it was a city of Sihon king of the Amorite. He had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon.
27 Therefore those discoursers say:Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt, and let the city of Sihon establish itself.
28 For a fire came forth from Heshbon, a blaze from the town of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, the possessors of the fane heights of Arnon.
29 Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons delivered from slaughter, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon, king of the Amorite.
30 We shot them; Heshbon perished as far as Dibon; we caused desolation until the fire was blown as far as Medeba.
31 When Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorite,
32 Moses sent men to spy out Jazer. They seized its outskirts and evicted the Amorite who was there.